Twitter Dictionary

While I was posting my daily Twitter update today (Ok, maybe not daily, but when I remember to;p) I was wondering the meaning of certain terms often used on the site, and especially what the past tense of a tweet is. Could it be a twit or a twat? So, I decided to do some investigating. Turns out I'm a few years late on putting the whole Twitter Dictionary together- See Twittonary | A Twitter Dictionary. But I can still throw up a few interesting words and meanings on my blog.

Here's some that have been around awhile.

adventuritter: an adventurous twitterer

beetweet: a buzzing tweet; a “hot” tweet

co-twitterer: a partner that tweets on your Twitter account.

dweet: tweet sent while intoxicated

drive-by-tweet: a quick post inbetween tasks

friendapalooza: a quick burst of friend-adding

mistweet: a tweet in which one later regrets

neweeter: a new tweeter

occasionitter: an occasional tweeter

politweeter: a political tweeter

politweet: a political tweet

qwitter: a tool used to catch twitter quitters- UseQuitter.com

reportwitters: reporter style twitterers

sweeple: sweet twitter people

twadd: to add/follow someone to your Twitter account as a friend.

twaffic: Twitter traffic.

twaiting: twittering while waiting.

twalking: walking while twittering via text.

twapplications: Twitter applications.

twead: to read a tweet from a fellow twitterer.

tweepish: feeling sheepish or regretful about something you tweeted.

tweeple: Twitter people, Twitter members, Twitter users.

tweeps: Twitter people that follow each other from one social media/network to another.

tweetaholism: the continued use of Twitter as an addiction that is difficult to control.

tweetaholic: someone addicted to Twitter, so much so that it may be an actual problem.

tweet-back: bringing a previous tweet conversation or reference back into the current conversation.

tweet-dropping: eavesdropping on someone else’s home page in friends mode.

tweeter: a user of Twitter.

tweeterboxes: twitterers who tweet too much.

tweetheart: that special tweeter who makes your heart skip a beat.

tweetin: when a group of twitterers agree to get together at a set time to twitter.

tweet(ing): the act of posting to Twitter.

tweets: posts on Twitter by twitterers.

tweetsulted, tweetsult: what do you think it means, you dumb twitterer?

tweetup: when twitterers meet in person – a Twitter meet up.

twideo-cronicity: when you’re watching someone’s videos and they are simultaneously leaving a comment or tweet for/at/about you.

twiking: biking while twittering via text.

twinkedIn: inviting friends made on Twitter to connect with you on LinkedIn (LinkedIn).

twis: to dis a fellow twitterer. very bad form.

Twitophant / Twitophantic: One who repeatedly tweets the Top 100 in an attempt to gain more followers.

twitosphere: community of twitterers.

twittastic: fantastic, wonderful, superb.

twittcrastination: avoiding action while twittering, procrastination enabled by Twitter use.

twittduit: If you need to tweet a friend that does not follow you, post a twittduit asking your followers to pass a message.

twittectomy: an unfollowing of friends.

twitter-light zone: where you are when you return to Twitter after any time away and feel disoriented and lost.

twitter stream: a collection of tweets often times in alphabetical order

twitosphere: the community of twepple.

twitterati: The A-list twitterers.

twittercal mass: a community that has achieved a critical mass of twitterers.

twitterer: a user of Twitter (compare: tweeter).

twittering: to send a Twitter message.

twitterish: erractic behavior with short outbursts.

twitteritas: women who play with their twitters.

twitterness: a person’s contribution to the twitosphere.

twitterfly: being a social butterfly on Twitter evidenced by extreme usage of @ signs.

twitterject: interject your tweet into an existing tweet stream of conversation.

twitter-ku: those who either post on both Twitter and Jaiku (Jaiku) or load their Twitter feed into Jaiku.

twitterlinkr: a service collecting the best links posted through Twitter.

twitterlooing: twittering from a bathroom.

twitterloop: to be caught up with friend tweets and up on the conversation.

twittermob: an unruly and ragtag horde of people who descend on an ill-prepared location after a provocative Twitter message.

twittermaps: a mashup technology that lets Twitter users find each other using google maps.

twitterpated: to be overwhelmed with Twitter messages.

twitterphoria: the elation you feel when the person you’ve added as a friend adds you back.

twitterage: rage at a twitter post.

twitterrhea: the act of sending too many Twitter messages.---

A master list for noobs: Twitter abbreviations
These have been used for years on other social networking sites and messenger applications, but still, noobs gotta learn sometime.
AFK = Away from Keyboard

b/c OR B.C = Because
BBL = Be back later
BG = Background (when someone refers to their Twitter background page)
BFN = Bye for now
BR = Best regards
BRB = Be right back
BTW = By the way
DM = Direct message
EM = Email
FB = Facebook
FTF = Face to face
FWIW = For what it’s worth
Gr8 = Great
IMO = In my opinion
IMHO = In my honest opinion or in my humble opinion
IRL = In real life
J/K = Just kidding
LI = LinkedIn
LMK = Let me know
LMBO = Laughing my butt off
LMAO = Laughing my ass off
LOL = Laughing out loud
NP = No problem
OMG = Oh my God
OMFG = Oh my f—- God
PLZ = Please
Ppl = People
ROFL = Rolling on the floor laughing
RT = Retweet
RTHX = Thanks for the retweet
TMB = Tweet me back
TMI = Too much information
TTFN = Ta-ta for now
TTYS = Talk to you soon
TTYL = Talk to you later
TY = Thank you
WTH = What the heck
WTF = What the f—
YW = You’re welcome
<3 = This is the text version of a heart

If you are still confused or come across something not mentioned above try:

Internet Slang TranslatorNoslang.com
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A few cool Twitter Tools
Autopostr - This service lets your friends in Twitter know when you post a new picture on Flickr.
EmailTwitter – With this service, you can send tweets to Twitter from your cellphone without incurring SMS charges

Hashtags – You can add tags to your Twitter posts with this service.

OutTwit – A tool for Outlook that will send the latest tweets from your friends as incoming email messages.

TweetChannel – You can add TweetChannel as your friend in Twitter to help you channel your various posts.

TweetLater – An useful service to schedule your Twitter posts for the future.

Twitpic – Share pictures on Twitter using Twitpic.

Twitsay – You can tweet an audio recording to Twitter using this new and popular service.

Twitterlinkr – Shows you the popular links that people are posting in Twitter.

Tweetburner – Tweetburner gives you click stats for the links you posted in Twitter.

Twittermeter – You can use Twittermeter to see how frequently a word has been used on Twitter. You can also compare two or more words.

Twitter for iPhone – Twitter client for your iPhone.
 
Quitter – Quitter will help you how to use Twitter to quit smoking. Bonus points for cool name.

StrawPoll – Sends out polls on Twitter that you can participate on. As they say, you can never have too many polls.
Twitterfeed – Posts your blog posts automatically to Twitter.

TwitterMeThis – When you follow TwitterMeThis, it will send you a question randomly. If you are the first to answer that question, then you get $5
Who Should I follow – Find interesting people to follow on Twitter using this tool.

Make Shorter URLS for reposting on sites such as Twitter
http://tinyurl.com/

http://www.tiny.cc/
http://metamark.net/ 
http://www.tiny9.com/
(Lets you ad tags to URLS)

Long URL Please Replaces Shortened Links with the Real Thing- Firefox Plugin.
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Neat people/Twits/Twitters to follow

A list of the Top 250 People that are the Coolest, Most Influential or Neatest on Twitter.
They also are very-very likely to Follow you back! 

Also, when you log into Twitter click on 'Find People' on the top right side of the page, then click 'Browse Suggestions' This is a neat way to find users by certain interests to follow.
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Related Stories:

Ten Reasons Why Using Twitter Will Boost Your Happiness.
The Happiness Project.

Sixteen Great Twitter Moments
Mashable.com
Older but still a cool read if you are interested in Twitter at all.